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The Economy of Salvation, also called the Divine Economy, is that part of divine
revelation
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Background
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in the
Roman Catholic
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tradition that deals with
God
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’s creation and management of the world, particularly his
plan of salvation
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accomplished through the Church. ''Economy'' comes from the
Greek
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''oikonomia'' (economy), literally, "management of a household" or "stewardship".
Church doctrine sees this as the elements and resources revealed by God as necessary for the sake of mankind's salvation through God's
revelation
In religion and theology, revelation is the revealing or disclosing of some form of truth or knowledge through communication with a deity or other supernatural entity or entities.
Background
Inspiration – such as that bestowed by God on the ...
and communication of himself to mankind. It refers to God's creation of all things, and of his governance of the world, especially with regards to Jesus' part in salvation, which includes his mission being fulfilled by his body, the Church, and through the sacraments.
Paragraph 1103 of the ''Catechism of the Catholic Church'' also refers to the "Economy of Salvation" as the "economy of Revelation."
The term "Economy of Salvation" is first used by
Origen of Alexandria
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, although references to the "Divine Economy", the "Economy of God" or simply the "Economy" are in earlier Church fathers.
Giorgio Agamben's ''The Kingdom and the Glory: For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Government'' (2007; Eng. translation, 2011, p. 51) argues that this concept of "economy" (''oikonomia'') becomes narrowed to refer to a divine plan of salvation only after the
Nicene dogma is established. In early Church history, the term also encompasses the "organization of the divine life" (51).
See also
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Treasury of merit The treasury of merit or treasury of the Church (''thesaurus ecclesiae''; el, θησαυρός, ''thesaurós'', treasure; el, ἐκκλησία, ''ekklēsía''‚ convening, congregation, parish) consists, according to Catholic belief, of the mer ...
References
Further reading
* Conrad, A. C. ''The Divine Economy''.
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Lumen GentiumThe Role of the Blessed Mother in the Economy of Salvation
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